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| 8492028998 | Ovid's metamorphoses | Ovid (the author) was a lawyer and official, and lacked political ambitions. Metamorphoses: 1. 15 books in length 2. theme=chances in shape 3. creation of the universe-> creation of human beings ->Four Ages of early humanity (Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Iron) -> the Great Flood that wiped out all human life except for a Greek guy named Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha -> strange occurrences involving gods, demigods, and mortals, all centering on moments of transformation from one physical state to another -> death of caesar | 0 | |
| 8492068699 | Daedalus (and Icarus) | Daedalus- genius inventor, invented carpentry and the first wings Icarus- the son of Daedalus, defied the laws of both man and nature, ignoring the warnings of his father, rose higher and higher with his wings and eventually dies | 1 | |
| 8492074503 | Michael Davitt | -Irish Republican and agrarian campaigner who founded the IRISH NATIONAL LAND LEAGUE -Member of Parliament and a labour leader -Campaigned for HOME RULE and close ally of CHARLES PARNELL -Joined the anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation | 2 | |
| 8492085338 | Charles Stewart Parnell | -Elected to parliament in 1875 as a member of the HOME RULE LEAGUE -Parnell became an active opponent of the Irish land laws, believing their reform should be the first step on the road to Home Rule. -Adultery with Kitty O'Shea and the scandal provoked a split in the party and Parnell was replaced as leader | 3 | |
| 8492107950 | Cardinal Wolsey | -He became chaplain to the archbishop of Canterbury and later chaplain to Henry VII, who employed him on diplomatic missions. -An efficient administrator, both for the Crown and the church -Henry VIII delegated more and more state business to him, including near-complete control of England's foreign policy -Henry asked Wolsey to use his influence in Rome to get a papal annulment of Henry's marriage so that he could remarry. Wolsey was unable to accomplish this. -Wolsey was widely disliked and his failure to arrange an annulment for Henry was quickly followed by his downfall | 4 | |
| 8492129687 | Leicester Abbey | -Provided a home to an average of 30 to 40 canons (monks) -Cardinal Thomas Wolsey died at the abbey, whilst travelling south to face trial for treason -Founded during a wave of monastic enthusiasm that swept through western Christendom; founded in the Augustinian tradition | 5 | |
| 8492145904 | Dante Alighieri (and his Divine Comedy) | -It is one of literature's boldest undertakings, as Dante takes us through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and then reaches Heaven (Paradiso), where he is permitted to partake of the Beatific Vision. -Dante's journey serves as an allegory of the progress of the individual soul toward God. The work is arranged in 100 cantos in 3 parts, 34 for the Inferno, 33 each for Purgatorio and Paradiso. -The work is written in groups of 3 lines, or tercets, reminiscent of the Trinity. While Dante was critical of the Catholic Church as an institution, his writings remained faithful to his schooling by the Dominicans, where he learned the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas -It signaled the beginning of the Renaissance. | 6 | |
| 8492157006 | Kitty O' Shea | - English woman of aristocratic background, whose decade-long secret adultery with Charles Stewart Parnell led to a widely publicized divorce in 1890 and his political downfall - Originally married Captain William O'Shea in 1867, a Catholic Nationalist MP | 7 | |
| 8492165030 | Ireland (map/location) |  | 8 | |
| 8492170193 | Queen Victoria (who she is and her birthday) | -Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India -Last of the House of Hanover and gave her name to an era, the Victorian Age. -Birthday: May 24th, 1819 | 9 | |
| 8492182668 | The Blessed Virgin Mary | -Believed by many to be the greatest of all Christian saints -She was declared the daughter of Sts. Joachim and Anne. -Born in Jerusalem, she took a vow of virginity. -Living in Nazareth,she was visited by the archangel Gabriel, who announced to her that she would become the Mother of Jesus | 10 | |
| 8492202989 | Tower of Ivory/House of Gold | -The tower of ivory is a symbol of purity. It means Mary is pure in body and soul for that she is most beloved by god or the tower represents the church and the ivory is a symbol of the purity of its priests -The House of Gold is an ancient biblical symbol related to the temple of god in jerusalem which god himself commanded to be covered with gold so that it will be worthy to be his dwelling place on earth. | 11 | |
| 8492221207 | Roman Catholicism (and mass) | -Catholic Church sees the Mass or Eucharist as "the source and summit of the Christian life", to which the other sacraments are oriented. The Catholic Church believes that the Mass is exactly the same sacrifice that Jesus Christ offered on the Cross at Calvary | 12 | |
| 8492238778 | Cricket | -It is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch | 13 | |
| 8492241716 | Holy Communion | -The bread and wine are referred to as the body and blood of Christ -Ordinance, sacrament | 14 | |
| 8492248681 | Pandybat | -A stout leather strap reinforced internally with whalebone or even lead and used to inflict punishment, especially by striking the palms of schoolboys. | 15 | |
| 8492251319 | Dublin | -Capital of the Republic of Ireland, is on Ireland's east coast at the mouth of the River Liffey. | 16 | |
| 8492255504 | St.Francis Xavier | -With encouragement from his friend Ignatius of Loyola, Xavier devoted himself to religious service and became one of the founders of the Jesuit order. Much of his life was spent tending to missions in areas such as India and Japan. He was 46 when he died on China's Shangchuan Island | 17 | |
| 8492267712 | Cork (the Mardyke) | 18 | ||
| 8492277111 | Mercedes (from The Count of Monte Cristo) | -She's beautiful, exotic, and faithful. She has a kind heart. -Dantès's beautiful and good fiancée. Though Mercédès marries another man, Fernand Mondego, while Dantès is in prison, she never stops loving Dantès. Mercédès is one of the few whom Dantès both punishes (for her disloyalty) and rewards (for her enduring love and underlying goodness). | 19 | |
| 8492289304 | Lord Byron | -British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe. -His best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems, Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem, "She Walks in Beauty". | 20 | |
| 8492304953 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | -English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry -Lord Byron was a dominant influence on the young Tennyson. | 21 | |
| 8492312152 | Whitsuntide | -Name used for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the eighth Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples | 22 | |
| 8492316316 | The blessed sacrament | -Devotional name used to refer to the body and blood of Christ in the form of consecrated sacramental bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist. | 23 | |
| 8492319027 | Confiteor | -One of the prayers that can be said during the Penitential Act at the beginning of Mass of the Roman Rite in the Catholic Church. | 24 | |
| 8492326801 | Mark 8:36 | What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? | 25 | |
| 8492327540 | Seven Deadly Sins | -Pride, covetousness (greed), lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. | 26 | |
| 8492331186 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | -Main themes of his work: the restlessness and brooding, the rebellion against authority, the interchange with nature, the power of the visionary imagination and of poetry, the pursuit of ideal love, and the untamed spirit ever in search of freedom -His life and works exemplify Romanticism | 27 | |
| 8492341293 | Drisheen | -Type of blood pudding made in Ireland. It is distinguished from other forms of Irish black pudding by having a gelatinous consistency -Ingredients: Blood (cow, pig or sheep), milk, salt, fat, breadcrumbs | 28 | |
| 8492343793 | Cardinal Newman | -Anglican priest, poet and theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England -Originally an evangelical Oxford University academic and priest in the Church of England, but became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. -He became known as a leader of the OXFORD MOVEMENT -He officially left the Church of England and his teaching post at Oxford University and was received into the Catholic Church. He was quickly ordained as a priest and continued as an influential religious leader | 29 |
